obeying them heartily, she interrupted Maitre Jean:

"By my troth, Messire," she said to him, "saving your reverence, I
dare say unto you and swear at the risk of my life, that he is the
noblest Christian of all Christians, that none loveth better religion
and the Church, and that he is not at all what you say."[2463]

[Footnote 2463: _Trial_, vol. ii, pp. 15, 17, 335, 345, 353, 367.]

Maitre Guillaume ordered the Usher, Jean Massieu, to silence her.[2464]
Then he went on with his sermon, and concluded with these words:
"Jeanne, behold my Lords the Judges, who oftentimes have summoned you
and required you to submit all your acts and sayings to Mother Church.
In these acts and sayings were many things which, so it seemed to
these clerics, were good neither to say nor to maintain."[2465]

[Footnote 2464: _Ibid._, p. 17.]

[Footnote 2465: _Ibid._, vol. i, pp. 444, 445.]

"I will answer you," said Jeanne. Touching the article of submission
to the Church, she recalled how she had asked for all the deeds she
had wrought and the words she had uttered to be reported to Rome, to
Our Holy Father the Pope, to whom, after God, she appealed. Then she
added: "And as for the sayings I have uttered and the deeds I have
done, they have all been by God's command."[2466]

[Footnote 2466: _Ibid._, p. 445.]

She declared that she had not understood that the record of her trial
was being sent to Rome to be judged by the Pope.

"I will not have it thus," she said. "I know not what you will insert
in the record of these proceedings. I demand to be taken to the Pope
and questioned by him."[2467]

[Footnote 2467: _Ibid._, vol. ii, p. 358.]

They urged her to incriminate her King. But they wasted their breath.

"For my deeds and sayings I hold no man responsible, neither my King
nor another."[2468]

[Footnote 2468: _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 445.]

"Will you abjure all your deeds and sayings? Will you abjure such of
your deeds and sayings as have been condemned by the clerks?"

"I appeal to God and to Our Holy Father, the Pope."

"But that is not sufficient. We cannot go so far to seek the Pope.
Each Ordinary is judge in his own diocese. Wherefore it is needful for
you to appeal to Our Holy Mother Church, and to hold as true all that
clerks and folks well learned in the matter say and determine touching
your actions and your sayings."[2469]

[Footnote 2469: _Trial_, vol. i, pp. 445, 446.]

Admonished with yet a third admonition, Jea